When starting KFind, you will see a quite simple window. Type in the name of the file you are searching in the textbox labeled Named:. Choose a folder where you want to search by typing it in the field Look in: or by clicking and press Enter or click . If Include subfolders is checked all subfolders starting from your chosen folder will be searched too. The results will be displayed in the box below.
You can use the following wildcards:
The asterisk stands for any number of missing characters (even zero),
that means for example, searching for marc*
may find the
files marc
, marc.png
and
marc_must_not_read_this.kwd
.
mar*.kwd
may find
marketplace.kwd
and
marc_must_not_read_this.kwd
.
In contrast to the asterisk, the question mark stands for exactly one
character, so mar?
will find
marc
, but marc?
will not find
anything, as our files are called marc
and
marc.png
. You can put as many question marks in the
term as you want, it will find exactly that number of characters.
Of course you can combine those two wildcard symbols in a search term.
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